WWF Seek Global Support to Persuade UNESCO to add ‘Seasons’ to the World Heritage list

The Norwegian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF, working with clothing company Bergans, have launched an initiative to ‘Save the Seasons’ in a bid to have them added, and thus preserved, as part of UNESCO’s World Heritage list. Pyramids, temples, Stonehenge, reefs and… seasons? Everything previously included on UNESCO’s World Heritage list is either […]

World’s Longest Ski Run is Skiable in Full Less Often as Climate Change Bites

What’s generally regarded as the world’s longest lift-accessed ski run, the famous Vallée Blanche above Chamonix, looks set to lose its status, for a large part of the winter at least, as climate change melts away the Mer de Glace glacier beneath it. The occasionally 20km long run, with a potential vertical descent of around […]

30 Year, 100m Swiss Franc Plan to Save a Swiss Glacier

A Swiss glaciologist, Felix Keller, has an ambitious plan to save the Morteratsch Glacier, the third largest and by volume the most massive glacier in the Eastern Alps, from melting away. Keller is concerned that rapid glacier melt caused by climate change will mean that the gradual melt water relied upon by Switzerland for water […]

Ischgl Declared ‘Climate Neutral’

The Austrian Tirol ski resort of Ischgl has been declared climate-neutral by the German company ClimatePartner, which is described as, “the leading solution provider for climate protection measures.” Ischgl’s lift operators, Silvrettaseilbahn AG, have both worked to reduce their company’s CO2 emissions and offset the remaining CO2 through ClimatePartner, with the company then declaring Ischgl, […]

Ski Holiday Company Focuses on Reducing Environmental Impact

The travel company which runs tour operators Erna Low and Nuco have stepped up their efforts in the fight to stop the climate emergency. They are both taking steps to cut their own CO2 emissions and minimise waste and offering guidance to skiers and boarders heading to the slopes with them this winter on how […]

Cairngorm Mountain Announce Plan To Switch to Biofuel

Snow making, road clearing and other diesel-fuelled machinery at Cairngorm Mountain is set to be powered by biofuel in the new year in a move which is expected to cut carbon emissions from the equipment by up to 90%. Operator, Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Limited (CMSL), has issued a tender to biofuel traders on the National […]

FIS Plan To Update 25 Year Old Environmental Plan

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has faced a lot of criticism over the years from various quarters for its attitude towards protecting the environment. However back in 1994 the organisation had met on the Island of Mainau in Constance, Germany, and agreed the “FIS Mainau Manifesto” which articulates the orgamisation’s commitment to supporting the sustainability […]

Chalet Company Gets Greener

Chalet holiday company Ski Beat has introduced new 100% recycled, second use R-PET plastic containers for the L’Occitane shampoo, shower gel and body lotion used within its fifty nine ski chalets in the French Alps. The move ensures that containers used for the toiletries are 100% recyclable with no production of plastic involved. The bottles […]

Pejo Goes Plastic Free

Italian ski centre Pejo, a ski and thermal spa resort in Trentino’s Stelvio National Park, is claiming to be the first in the world to ban the use of single use plastics. That means no plastic cutlery, plates, straws, glasses, bottles or even sachets of ketchup are permitted in the valley. The move came after […]

Swiss Hotel Group Announces It’s Climate Neutral

The Swiss Tschuggen Hotel Group which runs a total of five properties, including four and five star hotels in St. Moritz and Arosa, has announced it has gone CO2 neutral by a combination of dramatically reducing the groups actual CO2 output and offsetting the CO2 emissions it still makes. In that latter part of it’s […]